Interesting observations
Engaging in illegal activity is learned, there is nothing in our subconscious that causes us to do so. We are not "programmed" to either. Somewhere in our lives we make a choice to do so. For one, black men need to abandon the level of aggression we hold on to that we confuse for strength. We are constantly on the defensive and this is a negative. Only a person who sees them self as a victim feels the need to defend themselves. We are NOT victims. White men are in control because there is nothing in their minds that puts them in the victim state. Only poor whites see themselves as victims because they are poor and they blame everyone except themselves the same a poor black men. We have to accept education as a rule and not an option, we have to accept success in every way as a rule and not an exception and we must seek this through all ways LEGAL other than just entertainment. We must abandon the phrase "I gotta do what I gotta do" because you don't "gotta" do anything, we CHOOSE everything we do.
To live we must eat, to eat we must get a job, a career or own a business, not sell drugs, steal, etc. This is not only common sense it's a necessity and must be realized and accepted and not seen as an option. We must strive to be the best we can and stop giving those that think less of us exactly what they expect.
But what do the statistics tell in the past 20 years?
Wasn't there anyone in the entire Black community saying the exact same things,
as guidance counselors, clergy, community organizers, parol officers, parents and uncles?
Are we aware of how the mind works?
Thousands of Germans cheered with sincerity when then , senator Barack Obama made his speech in Germany before the election, and millions enjoyed watching him on German television, but just 70 years ago a Black woman, child or man could not walk down the street in any part of Germany without haveing another thousand Germans race to rip the flesh from their bones.
Good behavior/ Bad behavior
What are the switches that turn it on or off?
According to Amos Wilson the film gangs of Ne Yoek had only one flaw really.
It failed to explain that all major cities, at that time were run and ravaged by white gangs, much younger.
What turned the white youth around?
Sayings of you should know better?
Or actual institions implemented and funded to handle the problem in a much larger scale
What was the activity of the Black youth at the age we see the young gang bangers today,
doing in Africa 500 years ago?
Are we aware that school was mandatory and that there was a peer pressure towards excellence, fostered from the older down to the younger students?
As much as I care about people, if I see someone hit by a car, I will call an ambulance because I don't know how to set bones,
and if i see folks caught up in a trend that is self destructive and it seems to escalate, I understand that there is a social psychological problem there and will leae it to the expertsin psychology to handle it.
every single addiction from gambling to overeating, is based on the notion that folks desire basically to stop behaviors they feel they have no control over.
They know it is wrong but compulsion out weighs, all the rules regulations and "well this is how it should be, phrases"
Harriett Tubman said she freed alot of slaves but could have freed more if they only knew they were slaves.